Cabinet-chair



NPEI'ERS, PHOTO-LITHDGMPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SEWALL PEARSON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,849, dated October 18, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SEWALL PEARsoN, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Cabinet-Chair; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,V

and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section of my invention, the line 0c a2, Fig. 2 indicating the plane of section. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of ditto, taken in the line yr, y, Fig. l.

Similar letters in both views refer to corresponding parts.

With portable water-closets or sick-chairs the principal difficulty hitherto has been that it is impossible t0 keep the stench from the room, and at the same time a sick person using such is very liable to take cold.

To obviate these difficulties is the object of my invention, which consists in arranging in a bureau, chair or other piece of furniture in combination with a perforated seat and with a self-closing pot, a water-tank of such a form that the same when properly prepared and upholstered forms a comfortable back for said seat and that a deposit made through the hole in the seat can be washed down into the lower part of the pot by means of a spout which extends from the water tank to the hole in the seat, and the mouth of which is so arranged that it spreads the water and bends the current down directing the same to the proper spot.

To enable those skilled .in the art to make and use my invention I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a box of the form of a bureau, or wash-stand. It may however be arranged in the form of a chair or in any other convenient form for a person to rest on. The interior of said box is furnished with a seat, B, and a water-tank, C, of semicircular form surrounds said seatin such a manner that it (the tank) serves for the back. To make things comfortable, the in side of said tank is covered with cloth and upholstered so that a person sitting on the seat can recline and rest without being exposed to the influence of a draft of air which may be created in the room.

The seat is perforated with a hole, D, and a spout, E, extends from the tank, C, to said hole, as clearly shown in Fig. 1. A valve, a, in the interior of the tank is so arranged that it shuts the water off from the spout. The tank is filledv with water through a funnel, F, on the back.

Under the seat, B, and placed right under the hole there is a pot, Gr, which consists of two parts.- The upper part, c, forms a truni cated cone open on both sides and with its smallest end below, and it is closed by a dipper, cl, which is kept up to the opening by `a counterpoise, e. Any extra weight placed on the dipper depresses the same causing it to discharge its contents into the lower part, f, of the pot.

For sick persons the tank, C, is filled with hot water, whereby the whole chair is warmed so as to preclude any opportunity of taking cold.

A depositbeing made through the hole, D, into the dipper, cl, is completely washed down by letting water into it through the spout, E, and the pot can be removed from the room without causing a disagreeable smell.

That I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Arranging in a bureau, chair or other piece of furniture, A, in combination with a perforated seat, B, and with a self-closing pot, G, a water-tank, C, which forms the back for the seat, and which communicates with the pot by means of a spout, E, substantially as and for the purpose speciied.

SEWALL PEARSON.

Witnesses ASA PATTEN, EDWARDS. PEARsoN. 

